Tag: datalogger

• May 22, 2020

  Salvaging a microSD card

  Opening up a watertight box and finding this inside is never encouraging. The toxic soup trapped inside the box wasn’t doing any favors to the batteries or electronics, and the data logger was dead on arrival. But we pulled the microSD card to see if there was anything that could be salvaged off of it.…
• October 17, 2016

  “Robomussels” in the New York Times

  For several years, starting first at UC Santa Barbara around 1999/2000, and then in the mid 2000’s and early teens at Hopkins Marine Station, I would spend one or two low tides per year going out to the seashore and gluing fake plastic mussels into the middle of real mussel beds (as shown above). These…
• May 21, 2015

  iButton internals

  I’ve written in the past about iButtons and my attempts to waterproof them. Although iButton temperature dataloggers are fairly well sealed, they are not waterproof. But if you know an old person that used iButtons in the late 90s or early 2000s, they might claim that iButtons are absolutely waterproof. It turns out that iButtons…
• August 17, 2010

  A thermocouple datalogger based on the Arduino platform

  Building a 8-channel temperature datalogger using Arduino.
• February 13, 2010

  Thermocouple datalogger – the USB-501TC

  In 2008, Measurement Computing released a self-contained datalogger that will record temperatures from a thermocouple continuously. The USB-501TC will read 32,510 temperature samples, each time-stamped. It will read K, J, and T-type thermocouples, and ships with the K-type thermocouple shown in the picture. The temperature readings can be taken at a number of intervals ranging…